Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-09-01
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KANSAS CROP PROSPECTS
FOR 1883.
The wear of 1887 has been an unsuc-
cessful crop year in nearly every state in
the Union. Even California, which is
seldom effected by the circumstances
which control the crops in the states
east of the Rocky Mountains, seems al
DO to have had an of year. and the
amount of vegetables and fruits annually
sent out by her cannaries will be reduced
by one-half.
The states lying in the Mississippi val
ley comprising q section which is capa-
BILE of producing food material enough
for the entire world, is out with excuses
for her failure to contribute her custo-
mary portion to the general granary.
Probably it is the first instance in the
history of the country where 80 many
states in different ATTITUDES and subject
to the influence of SO many different
physical changes, have suffered such q
disastrous failure of general crops as
during the present year. But very few
substantial citizens have fears for the
future of either the country in general or
of their own state or locality, because of
the last failure.
According to the knowledge hereto
fore existing in regard to natures rulings
and provisions, such another caprice of
the climate is very improbable thing
for wears. A favorite rule, often express
ed by Senator Vest, applies very well
here: II 60 by history; I 60 by what
the world has learned" This rule ap-
plies to crops the same as in everything
else. The records of the whole country
as well as the state of Kansas, are elig-
ible witnesses to the fact, that whenever
drouth and disaster 90 before, the
Goddess of plenty attends with q reliev-
ing cup of water for the famished lips of
the unfortunate.
Among all the venerable documents in
its dusty archives, none bear witness to
any seven years famine during the his
tory of the new Canaan.
No sensible man who has in his mind
even the limited knowledge of his own
short experience, would neglect to sow
his crops on account of one years fail
ure. It is the most mOnstrous and idi-
otto proposition of which it is possible to
conceive. The average Kansas farmer
knows about as well as anybody else that
hickory nuts don't grow on the trees
every year, and that it is unreasonable
to expect it. OF course he would much
prefer that everything should 60 along
smoothly, and that his pathway should
be one of uninterrupted bliss, but when
his prospects meet with rebuff he stands
it like man, as he has been often told
to do by his parents when boy, at one
of those regular periods, when it was
always an memorable custom of those
worthy folks, to disturb the healthy
workings of nature by forcing him to
gulp down a mixture of calomel root,
tansy tea, epicac and various other con-
diments in which il there was no good,
all the usages and customs of his ances
tors stood forth in indissoluble array to
Prove that there was no harm.
A drouthy year may scare of tender
foot. but the old veteran granger has
experienced too many ups and downs in
the roadway of his checkered existence
to worry his mind much about such
commonplace affair as drouth.
It has been rtimored that many Of the
farmers were in doubt as to whether it
would he advisable to SOW wheat in
western Kansas this fall If any such
doubts ever existed they have been set
aside, for news comes to us that car
loads of seed wheat and rye are constant.
ly arriving at the various shipping points
and that the farmers are buying the seed
in large quantities. There is every
prospect that the acreage sown this fall
will largely exceed any ever sown before,
and with favorable season, the crops
gathered next fall will repair all losses
and set every industrious farmer on his
feet.
REPUBLICAN, co. CONvEN-
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